The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-23 00:00:00

iiOl7E-y- MARKET. AND C°IOIIMICIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. T E : rhe re is: no new feature in the Money Market. eo e bankers and discount firms are tolerably well c r i ed with resources, but they evince con ch erable reserve in all their operations, p e a r ilin g 7- 1 to regular customers, and 8 c ent. to the general public. The Specie 47°/stneat is still watched with great anxiety, as agate if . idea P re /ails that the Bank directors will not the drain continues to place still greater bstructioas in the w a y o f b u lli on s hi ppers . dank About £34,000 i n b ar gold was taken i nto the Yesterday. ex 4 ch il adv ance oc curre d yester d ay i n t h e ra t es o f owinange on ..tmsterdam, Paris, and Hamburg, 1, 1, no doubt, to the increased value of maney Itta S' o t e ! ? I° nday last the imports of specie have 4. "Leg to £817,600, and the exports to -1 / 4 1 ,211,9 00. s t ii "las Barnes, M.P. for Bolton, and James Reid I, o 44 d r n t , i ' of G lasgow, have joined the Board of the p itt il „,"" and Caledonian Marine Insurance Corn kett4t: Arrangements have been made for co t m he - T eta ing operations on the Ist of February at 4treellt!r4rY Offices in Cushion-court, O'd Broad- The n , Two O'CLOCK. to 111 "da v a " been no alteration in the English Sod 90 dap, Consols closing at 90i i for money, ap e 1 for the account , B us i ness b o th rea l an d ettll3.- .J• treBZiatiVe is very dull, and in the absence of any P°litic al news th e mar ket is quiet. The New p,: eas end R e d uced Annuities are 901 1-; ludia 3 s the $ o 1 051 ; ditto Enfaced 4 per Cents., 9 ; °lidsdiaepuut 6 s. is. ; an d Ex chequer Bills, 9s. to 4s. tien the Foreign Market there is not muchanima -15: lit quotations are generally firmer. Turk ish ds 4611 Cents., 1 862, are 66k 67; do. Consoli . e h , pasants,, 36 1 ; Greek, 221 Span is h Rae ° ; ditto Certificates, 13-1- Portu hae'l:' it and the Confederate Loan, 44 46. meant t- p e ,,,. 4 , 411 Way Share Market the dealings have liEuited, and a further downward move ijs ill p ta , k en place in prices. Great Northern, ,',.'oeol 'W- h a 'ern, and Manchester, She ffi eld, and Net e tt , "abe receded 55.; Caledonian, Grea t Ea ster r B righton, and Midland 10s. ; Nort h The u p et Wiek), however, have improved ss. It itlia ut - 7 ei gn and Colonial undertakings remain ch ef of importance. al l Et }, 4nd Mi scellaneous Shares in some instances d t o 26 8- g tide t fi rmer. Imperial Bank have improve d Bu enos Lon don and County, to 62 ; London an 424, ° T - „, 4 Yres realise 50, and Union of London, 1.0 (1 -"ter national Financial shares are at 11-7- ; quot e d °l ? i nancial, et 26 26 8 . Adriatic Steam . are 148 Prem. ; National Shipping' I6reddleit: preeurities, prem, ; and Mauritius 13 a 4 `'l °Yt.l/17,,11x SII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Per oell )4ENT FUNDS• a bi tt Pei Accou nt (,'• =. CuonotBPolesb 4 9Ol 1 901 Nip 3 'nit Reduced ' 9Ol li ew a Per Cent . New 31Ppeerr Cent. Jan. 1894 — APer Ce in C A _ e lt. Annuities 11 1 %tip,. '4lll-lanities, Jan. 1873 uitte for 0 0 Yrs, expire gth Jan., 1880 — bbitto 30 3're, expire sth April, 1885 —.- •citchecited.Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. bitte Bale, Xl,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent. 9 4 die b D itto , X5OO ...iv, "" Engl and £lOO and £2OO •76 IN BtlE, 4i per Ct., last hf.-yr 23 j e , i t bilo g r , ,Ift sh.,„,"OYERNIIENT SECURITIES. r• 10i p e ; qtt o r c oant • • ' Cent., April 1874.... -- D,105/ I 5 t o It Per ent. July, 1870 t e t e con 93 t ° 641fteed Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto tiP e r Cent., Jan. 1872 Ditto ,2'11: Xl,OO O 5 die b /.7," £l,OOO " r atili e4 -4 6 'I G•I‘I FUNDS--CLOSING _PRICES. Pitt°, is 3 N, r cent Ditt o 4} ' and 1859 b. II" Cent., 1852-58-60 11 —itt ° Sc tt.° 1863 C11 1 i7 ; 4 °% A rl yk l ß S63 ) £55 paid bi e. t l E der o e per Cent i t to A i _ At .... 1,,,k10, Nrle etit : . ......... ...„ olpttit' lroNOi str '''ll att . te . d 1 per Cent — 1 i_ j , A _ bitt e -13. 7 Per c 4 -444-Warrant - Orepk 2 Second t erk t 11 - ° Per n •-'BBtle • ............ 1001 —itt o A, -ent,, ID A * -- ~I-litto o ee( nint .. "' - 5, ex-Coupons 22i a aexio ei , ' 4 l 3 otiti ........... ofA Per o e „',. ... — o loorie s `tecou lit .'' • • ........ — w 35/ 1 Gran.Qperittie ............ it 444 . Per Cent Deep tiittott°beferrreecielit• --- 'l. , and ...... , 0(14 1011 44 , Warm_ 4 44 'Re, 6 7 , 11 Le (Hectares) ,Ditto 0, 186 3 ver Cent., Ex. 25f — s e . ..... n.r. ,_ ri p ( 18n ',A .„.._ ....... .. pm bi t i' o 4l l 3p4 e u e °) Xl2 Bs. 3d. paid Ditto Ac colint . 'lt ' .• ~ AI _ , .......... • b o khtt o A ! Per Lent., 1862 ••• rtib.„`"'eetint .. 831 4 1.) to .. 1 .. ....... itt o A Cent 1853 bittoN'ecolnat " .11b. , . Per Cent • ........... — 4„, it . t o A A — , 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Oen 67,A„l't: ...... , Itto 4 1 =-• Cent 18'22, £ 5t........ bitto Per Cent Dirt`' ab. , 1860 IV% 6—r Cent 1859 .. s MiPer Ce t " 1862 BB/ 8 D. 6 en t, 1 roanA Per Cent P h al liell - ' N e c' 3 llnt 841 ",i . tt o I . ' Per C ent Nte Zceennt ..h t +1 e e . deptbitttoot t . erred Bbi,„ P ew __• .. ............... — 11tt,: , .`° Acc:ve .......... . 1 1 / 2 it 4„ . • of Coup not funded — 11:,ltirsli, ;I)tblt tellper , ........ 6 tli k;ent. bi t t ''' Ace4 C ent. 185'4 4 it t t o6 p er ellt ............. b o Aec ,,_ era. 186 8 btto, 41,;),',1ttt bl t ° 6 p er ' tknule ........ Vi t t ' ) At e , C ent. 1862 Ditto t tv,„tirkt l (I ti v : 1301145 ... 67+ Itztleitt a rkr eed, 4 per Cent .1)t b) Ac t P e r Cent. ~tt , p _ eunt ... Qit t , '..• pe r p„ ....... "' Att '''lt., 1862 b ti Di N . l °llat . . 541 t eve. d e _ ................... . 446 '1 Per eil t• E 12' G '1 a ll r 0 • x. . m blt,. 6 p er `',.,ellt. Certificates Ackotin'ent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — a"' --/' • • ... ....... . •,. ) 4 42 ke ,, , ey . TNI.r:OIe I CLOCK. Ikt ..................... T o c 01 i ... ~.—tuetio - CENTENARIAN.—Mr s . 107th year u 107 '4llnrd.„B Itt le nerlei th en in he r respects a re taarkabji evening. Deceased was in several kt:t2l°l44‘.--------- Penn died lv known, at her_ n liot n„,‘e Pe% ring• long been wide considerable - Par t - ` 4 3' in thin'loanacith"but throughousthan was born ~.,14 or°tt4itllt3 outh of Scotland. 1757, but when ,(ilite I,„:4tetoWattn. the 31st of December, . first with her where" 44 ehe accompanied her family to Edinburgh, teaTihus .. ehe resided about sixty years, staying who presided as lnette'r, r. Thomaa M'George, a baker, th e ~...t4 St. Stephen's Lodge of Freemas i o t n s s p , Edinburgh,oet- N aft:4'4o4of Burns being installed as wares in the Roya l Xcile,-'4lverde opened a shop for ladies ' la u reate 1. ikedl.e, Which she kept for a number o f 60 unwards 1,„ an off„ . he was -. .. -perm, Isttr a e f •-,re of marriage till 8 Mr. Robert -, sal 1 . a.„Re, when she gave her hand to . ofyears. She de ed 18 years. Ntopttf' ••dit11)1.1rg11, whom she has sum , " with 1. 41 14 4 Y aft er her marriage Mrs. Penn r . em_ov si e n d ee re -41,1q. .N'elad to Innerleithen, where she h a s 11, ,Ille Zttting' her birth from the reign of events 411 r11,,,. - , Dereonally cognizant of man y ly as mat cer ""e Know to tit of the present day ti of hi rt those 4 the I,,,'t°rY; and she was wont to She saw the ipe '44lbUrgh worthies of the olden time. Sh from the F Of th e Paul Jones retire ~. or% i notorious John _ ..., when the tell numberless on stories %lo 0 1779, and wad present at EarkcamY, . rayer t°l4l4ttall 4r, Shirr - that pirate a a offered up his now historic P , ttliailei e'tetilaaa winds to defeat the object of i,s4t4(ol'n ,8110 witnessed the burning of t he Roman lik„ 441)111,4, and for ' I- 14811013's dwelling-house, and other buildings -te Ithi, 1.,..u) by the populace in 178 . 0 ; ..._ picked Itfre,,," k e pt an relics some trifles which eau 1 1 W1 4 -4 l' 4111("a the ruins When a girl she walked once or , *l l' f:::14 Qi[tegow to Paisley to hear the famous Georgeein ZtliIIIII,'"4: had Rhe afterwards made the acquaintan John ),"‘' I .I.?"4'''t big coti tem p orary , the still more famous "M":",„' Througonthe who le of her long life she n ever tti ,ke tkofessional vis't from a doctor, having stoutly re fu sed If° WaZtiherjenedical attendance to the last. She was a bl e Z, Whe,';`_4 r garden till the appro.ach of the present win ,'etiltiesm 4', health began to give 'way. 411 tiv, ' lqiiela were naturally good and had been well (I • 44 4 Her mental 111iiii '4e laat f mind occasionally wandered tl'l4 a ' re'll'iilled unimpaired to the . end, except that ,e ~. el', weeks her qo ll , Oco€ B ,,, an. 4tltil 1 ,1 : 1 , NOD• 8 4 NIIPEILLL" is in active - r ' I) eparation Oqitt that. Ynque in Pads, '4'" 'e4tte L 'in with Maclaine Carvallio in .r. Po" / t a IP 0 11 0 1p is iv o i]v" ,cl.'efS to ° e 74otj;ti°tj.l)i : ° ti —l,l 0,);,f0 SHARE MARKETS.—This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Share Railways, Paid B us iness •, Price. done. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter I Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A g ets no dir Do. B S till tip e.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin & Bellast June. Dun.,Perth,tizAb. June. Edinburgh Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stli 8 8i 81 8i 84 tz6 1201 121! 86 121 20} 7 74 37 39 16 17 97 98 107 109 994 64 47 49 7/ 8/ Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland [Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. 01 Irelaue Great Western Po Str Val gua. stock Lancashire .45 Yorkshire London and Blackwali Lou., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & St:l%th Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do * shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. Ji shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwink Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle IN prth London Do New [ North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stoci Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpow Shropshire Union South Devon....._ South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do 12711 i2B; 1331 1341 134 136 97 98 bsi 66 1 7 1 2 0 i 7 1 3 10/ 104 105 43 44 loot 107} in, 102 3 501 511 103 i 1016 129 129 i 1i Ild 18 300 52 63 25 t 6 103 k 1031, ..... - u 59 60 901 901 125 130 1 1 2 i.) 77 79 it 11i 124 126 13 45 98 100 53 64 33 34 P 4 95} 98 100 ! 88 39 Of 101 uI 71 8 16) ]CS 5 54 21 31 p Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford 4t Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford Newport',Do Do Hereford 84 67 170 175 22 25 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways Itlantio .st St Lawrenei Bom.,Barodalz.Cent Ind Gu. syer cent... Do. New . Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Luce Huron Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant, 0-odrieli 5 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 187:, Do. do. June 1, 16;.3 .21eutta.&S. astn ( Liu. Cape Town Dock Scril Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. ao. deferred...... Do. 2d Pret. Bonus.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Piet. stock ... Do. do. deferred__ Do. 4th Pref. stook... Do. do. deterred t.lndtaPentn.gua.sp.o Do. New Do. Janury, 1862 Gt. South.of J ndia(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer. - Do. New ... . ... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. .. Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. a. .. Do. It p. o. Extension Dc. It do .. ... • Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds. Kelb. & Hobson's Bay., Do. 7 p. c. Hoeg - . Bds. Newßr tinswiok a Canda Class A and B. N.ltl.C'daS pc Ist t bds , Soinde ) Do. Delhi I tg Do.d uib o n . ... u .... :::: Do. r Do. Indus. St. Flo.) Find. all 100 Closing Price. 60 e 2 103 105 1 P 4 1 I) 6i 6k 8 9 102 104 loi 103 105} 1061 101 104 P P 20 21 73 75 58 01. 60 68 50 55 60 52 40 EL 26 28 22 t 4 104 106 t 1 F 1 * I / 102 104 94 10 11 10if; 93 95 85 87 in 104 )04 98 100 94 98 57 59 3 5 82 84 103 104 102 104 * iP 102 104 100 102 13.14.1 25 1 10 st st 50 20 1 9.16.4 12.10 Share 1 au sk zo 205 to too I stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stook 20i 2O 100 100 stock stook stock stock stock stock WOok 1 all 100 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ti p.c..J a. .IzJ u 1) 1877-81 Do. 6p. c. Feb & Aug. 100 103 105 Do. dp. c.Mar..k Sept. 100 103 105 Do. Ip. o. Jan.&July. 10i 170 n Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 90 92 Cape G.llope. 6p 0,1873 t 100 100 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1896 100 109 111 110 flO Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 107 109 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 ilo 112 (Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 104 106 1054 .Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 108 110 IN.B.Gov. 6 p.c.J a.&Jub 100 lOt .104 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & OM. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 186( 100 99 100 Do. sp. c.,18/1 to 1871 100 994 10 , 4 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 10 0 99 4 1004 991 100 'New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 107 109 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 103 105 Queensland Gcv. 6p. a 10 0 108 110 I S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 108 110 - !Vla.Gov. Op.°. Ja.&July 100 - - Do. io 6 0.0. A.D kOot.. 100 110 111 -- BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 Icl Ulifford Amalgamated.. 38 89 38 t Devon G. Conb. (Tavist.) 1 575 685 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 664 684 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. W. 4d par East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 27 28 East Cam Brea.... E. W'lRussel (Tavistk ) 8.9.0 5 55 Gam&St.Aubyn(Gwen ; 584 10 12 Great South Tolgus l7B 44 41 G. Wheal Vor (lielston 40 15 17 Grenville 15.16.6 44 4f [lend's-Foot tlingston Downs 4 8 . . 1 1 82 3 .0 ;7 349 34 Lady Bertha 'Margaret (tiny Lclant 9k 17 19 I Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 25 14 1 d New Set )n l9f 50 90 - • North Downs 2l 14 11 I N.Wh'i Basset(lllozan 3.1.0 21 3 North Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols (st. Blaze)) - 11'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 44 46 'SouthCaradon(St.Cleer 14 430 140 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) -- - S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.0 574 624 'Stray Park 5 Carnar Silv.& Lead Min. 44 lt fin Crolt 9 19 20 • West Basset (Illog,an) l4 11 12 W Cr radon ( Liskeard; 5 54 55 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 80 05 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 20 25 Wheal Kitty (U.Lclant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott Wheal hiaryAnn glen ) 8 134 144 Wheal 3eton 585 150 160 WhealTreiawney (Lis ) 7 244 255 524 1 Wheal Union 3.17 3 34 FREFERENI !E SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 116 Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pd., 1011 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. East Lincoln, gua. 6 per cent., 138,9 London and Chatham, 44 per Cent., Ditto. Com. Fund stock. 5 per cent., 101 Midland Bradford pref. stock, 96 Northern and Eastern 5 per cent., 564 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8/ Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 17} I Copenhagen, lim., 3i N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent., 10} Ditto (2i), 3 Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 37 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 8} Ditto (ail), 2O Southern of France, 26 Turin and Savona, FOREIGN. MINES. Cape Copper, lira., 74 Cobre Copper, 34 Don Pedro, Nor! h Del Rey, Mont. Aureos Braall Gold Min. Co., 21 Yudanamutana of S. Austria's, (lim), 3 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance Bank of Lon:On and Liverpool (Um.), 451 41 51 5 Ang - lo Austrian, 61 Australasia, 76 Bank of London. 175 Bank of Wales, 1im.,131 Brazilian and Portuguese, Um., 8 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 41 I} City, 115 18 Colonial, 40 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 231 21 European Bank, lira., Hindustan, china, and Japan (Um.), 321 Imperial Bank (lim.), 231.5 e 5 6 Imperial Ottoman, i Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 4 London and Brazilian tlim.), 59 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 50 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 27 London and Colonial (lim.), 61 London and County, 62 London Joint Stock, 371 London and South African, 261 London and Westminster, 83/ Mercantile and Exchange, lim., 15} Oriental Bank Corporation, 61 Union of Australia, 511 Union of Ireland (lim.), 20 Union of London, 441 MISCELLANEOUS. British American Land, 241';:`. Commercial Union (insurance, 911 Crystal l'alace, Gen. Credit and 14mance of London, lim., 61 a Hudson's Bay, 171 4 International Financial Society, lim., 11 Joint •stock Discount, 61 1. London Financ ial Association, lim., 26 L on d on General Omnib us Company, 21 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 71 National Discount Company, lim., li National Steam Navigation, Um., 41 North British Australasian, 1 Ocean Marine (Insurance), 191 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 79} '&72 Royal. Mail Steam, 70 SI 4 Thames and M e rsey Marine (Insurance), 11m., 7i THE SUE, LONDON, SATURDAY EVI4INING, JANUARY 23, 1864. POLICE INTELL IGENCE—This Day. BOW-STREET. STREET ROBBERY.—DanieI Hearne WaS placed at the the bar, charged on remand with having committed a street robbery on Robert Henderson._ _ Police-constable 151 E eaid about half-past 12 or 1 on Monday night he was on duty near White Lion-street, Seven Dials, when he heard a faint cry of " Police." He went in the direction of the cry, and there he saw a number of young men running away from the prosecutor, who was lying drunk on the ground, and who said the men had robbed him of 7s. 6d. He sprung his rattle for assistance, and in a short time the prisoner was brought back by a police constable. Plisoner—The old manesays he lost 76. 6d. ; why, how could he do that when he had only 4s. when he came out of the workhouse infirmary ? (Laughter.) Mr. Henry—All your questions shall ba answered at the proper time. The prosecutor, a dissipated-looking man, said he came out of the infirmary with half a sovereign in his pocket, and, unfortunately, he changed it for drink. He took too much, and as b.e was going home some men set upon him, knocked him down, and stole his money. Ho could not say the prisoner was one of them. Prisoner. —That's right. How could he ? It was be tween 12 and one, so how could he see? I want to know how he could be robbed of 7s 6d when he had only got 4s ? (Laughter.) Prosecutor—l had half-a-sovereign, and it was changed to get drink with. Police-constable 46 E said the prisoner ran into his arms as he (witness) was proceeding in the direction of the sound cf the constable's rattle. _ Yv Several other police-constables having given evidence, Mr. Henry asked the prisoner what he had to say to the evidence of the constable. _ . Prisoner—All I've got to say is that I know nothing about it. I went out of an errand for my sister, when the policeman collars ms and walks me off tp th© station, Mr. Tierney, sister of the prisoner, said she kept a coal and greens shop in Compton-street, and on Monday night she sent the prisoner out to buy a candle about half-paa 11, so he could not have committed the robbery. Constable White said when he went to make inquiries of Mrs. Tierney about the prisoner, she said she had not seen him for three weeks, Tierney—Oh, your worship, I never said so. I've a real English lady in her own right in Chancery, and one that's got £6 a week coming to her, and she'll prove the boy has been at my place these three weeks. Its all false what the policeman says, and he knows it. Mr. Henry (to the prisoner)—The police seemed positive you were one of the parties who ill-used the man. Prisoner—Of course, they say so. Mr. Henry—What motive could they have for so doing it was not so ? Prisoner—Why, to got their is 63 a-day at the sessions. Mr. Henry-1 shall send the case to the sessions ; but before doing so I will hear what you have to say in answer to the charge. Prisoner—What I say 1 what's the use of my saying any thing. The police will swear all I say is false. The prisoner was then fully committed for trial, and as he was leaving the dock his female friend said to him— " Keep up your pluck, old tar." THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have zeceived files of papers from Bombay to the 29th December, and from Calcutta to the 29th December. We take the following summary of news from the Bombay Gazette of the 29th December: — It is stated that Sir William Denison, Governor-General of India, has decided on remaining in Calcutta, The Go vernment Secretariat offices have Leen ordered down from the North-West. _ . A Government steamer is in readiness at Calcutta to con vey Lady Elgin, as soon as she arrives there, to Suez. The Lord Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India left Bombay for Calcutta on the 14th inst. The Commander-iu-Chief of India, Sir Hugh Rose, has his head-quarters at Rawul Pindee. Sir William Mansfield, Commander-in-Chief of the Bom bay Army, has returned to the Presidency. On the morning of the sth inst. a party of the enemy on the frontier made a raid on our outpost about 15 miles north of Peshawar, They were driven off by the Irregular Cavalry, but unfortunately Lieutenant St. G. M. Bishop, of the Gth Bengal Cavalry, was killed while charging at the head of his men. Further intelligence has been received from the head quarters of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, at Rawul Pindee, stating that affairs on the frontier had be. come much more pacific. The villages of Laloo and Um beyla were taken without any officer being killed or wounded, the enemy suffering - severely. The Bonair tribe seem inclined to adhere to their engage ments, and the Bajouries and others who Lad come to their aid had fled. _ _ _ General Chamberlain has left the camp, and is improving Ln health. Letters from the North-West frontier contradict the re port of the death of Lieut. Mr, Battyc, of the Guide Corps, who was severely wounded when combating the enemy in the Umbeyla Pass. _ _ It is reported that the Camp of Exercise that was to have been formed at Mean Meer will most likely assemble at Rawul Pindee, and that Sir Hugh Rose will superintend the mancouvres in person. The ship Marian Moore has arrived here with a portion of the Persian Gulf submarine telegraph cable, and is taken to the Government transport moorings to have some fittings made ready, prior to being taken in tow by the Bombay marine steamer N ictoria for the Gulf. The trial of the first Armstrong gun, in Bombay, at the new battery, under the Light House at Colaba, was success fully made on the 15th inst. A Kurrachee paper gives out a report to the effect that Kurracheo has been fixed upon as the headquarters of the Persian Gulf and Bagdad line of telegraph. An illustrious visitor, in the person of H.H. the &can dra Nawab Begum of Bhopal, Knight of the Exalted Order of the Star of India, has arrived in Bombay on her way to the pilgrimage at Mecca. A grand Durbar was held by his Excellency Sir Bartle Frere on the 23d instant, for the reception of H.H. the Begum of Bhopal. The Hon, Rustomjee Jamsatjee Jejeebhoy has made a donation of 150,000 rupees (X 15,000) to enable five natives of India to qualify themselves in England to practise in this country as barristers-at-law. The Act for the prevention of adulteration of cotton and the better suppression of frauds in the cotton trade In the Bombay Presidency comes into force on the let February next. Government has accordingly appointed inspectors to carry out the Act in the several cotton-producing and trading districts, and also for Bombay as the principal place of export. The health of the town of Bombay has suffered greatly in consequence of the prevalence of cholera for the last three or four weeks. The English mail of the 3d inst. has not arrived up to the hour of our going is press. Our latest telegrams are to the 25th November. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE BOMBAY MARKETS. (From the Bombay Gazette of Dec. 29.) Since the date of our last report no change for the better has taken place in the position of the import market, which has remained dull and stagnant owing to extreme scarcity of money. The export market has become rather more firm, in consequence of encouraging advicea from Liverpool, and cotton has recovered more than 60r. per candy. FREIGHTS.-The remarks made last mail can be repeated. Natives are the principal operators and the extreme firm ness and confidence displayed by them appear to have re conciled shippers to ruling rates. Besides this the large quantity of seeds offering has greatly assisted to keep rates steady ; so that, notwiths'anding we have again had heavy arrivals, the demand for all classes of vessels has been good, and rates hare been firmly maintained ; tut there are not enough small vessels in port to supply the demand. THE CALCUTTA MARKETS. (From the Oak vtta Englishman of Dec. 20.) The screw steamer Carnatic, with the London mails to Nov. 10, via Galle, arrived at her moprings in the river on the afternoon of the 13th inst., and the express portion of a week's later news, through Bombay, reached us on the morning of the 16th. Our latest London dates by the latter source are to the 19th ult. The Messageries Impe • riales screw steamer Erymanthe, with the European mails of a late date, is now coming up the river. Import Market—Piece Goods: Money being even scarcer than it was, there is literally nothing doing. Joint-Stock Shares,—The share-market is stagnant, and few but forced sales have been made since our last issue. Most of the loans on joint-stock shares have been called in by the banks, and higher margins and interest demanded, so that all descriptions are lower in value by 10 to 20 per cent. Serious loss has arisen on time bargains, large sales having been made to persons without means. Government Securities.—These securities have kept de clining as the pressure for money increased. The chief transactions have been forced sales on account of parties who were unable to keep up their loans, or who had de faulted in their time bargains. Fours have been sold at 88; Fives, at 100; and Fives-and-a-Half at 105. MARKETS.--This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of produce at our market to-day was season. ably good. The trade was firm at the following rates FRUIT. e. d. a. a . .Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to o 0 Grapes,per lb 5 0 to 10 0 F or eign do 1 6 to 2 6 Alelons .. • 0 6too Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per ht-sv. 2 6 to 4 0 Fears, per do • 3 0 to 8 0 Oranges, per 100..3 6 to 8 0 Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 7 0 Gooseberrieshf sveo 0 to 0 0 I Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 o s. d. s d Mulberries, pr pt 0 oto 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, pun() oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb 1 3to 1 6 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0 Peaches... 0 oto 0 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per do. 0 oto 0 0 1 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 YEGET.ABLES. Greens, dz bunch 4 6to 5 6 Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 6 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 0 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 9 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 2 Cabbages, Savoy ditto..... dttoo. , . I);: d . d z. o . z . .. 2 1 1 0 0 0 s t t 00 0 23 1 8 i 6 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli, per bus. 0 Bto 1 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 potatoes, per ton 60 oto 110 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr lb ..0 oto 0 0 - Mushrooms,p ptl. 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 6 to 3 0 - Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 C ar rots, pr d 0.... 4 6to 5 6 Cos lett, score .. 0 o to 0 0 C ucu mbers ...... 0 ot o 0 0 Mint and savory..o o to 0 0 Garlic, per lb •• • • 0 oto 0 0' Endive, per score 0 o to 0 0 Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green n 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 0 to 0 0 F 0 resc h beans,h.s. 0 oto - Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn.. 1 6to 2 8 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 , 0 Rhubarb, per bun 1 ot o 1 6 s, ......... . 0 o to 0 0 Aspar a gus. pr do. 0 o to 0 6 pi„hpeas, h.-sV. 0 oto 6 _ T ur nip radishes 0 OSo 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 1 3 to 2 6 POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s Od to 12s Od ; geese, 4s Od to 7s Od each ; ducks, 2s Od to 2s 6d ;ducklings, oa 1. each;; ‘‘,n is goslings, s o d tO O E S Od to r a O b s b i o t d s to is 2d ; pigeons, Os dtois Od ; Surrey fowls, Os Od to 12s Od ; chickens, 6s Od to 8s Od barn-door fowls, Od; hares, 3s 3d to Os Od ; pheasants, 3s Od to 4s 6d ; par tridges, is Od to 2 s G d ; woodc ocks, Os to 3s 6d; snipes, Os to Os 9d; teal, Is O d to Os Od 4 p s tar O l d nig to ptarmigan, ctaopoonsse2 ; ; wild ducks, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; widgeons, is Od to is 3d; plovers, Os 6d to Os 9d each; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od is 4 d Ostend fresh butter; Os lld to is 2d ; English, ls 2d to 4d per lb ; English eggs, 125 Od to —s Od ; French do., 6s Od to 10s Od per 100; leverets, 3s Od to Os Od ; grouse, Os 03 to 2s 3d. Death of Sir William Atherton. We have to announce the demise of Sir William Atherton, late Attorney-General, who expired shortly before noon yesterday, at his residence in Westbourne-terrace. The late hon. gentleman was in his 58th year. He was the son of the late Rev. William Atherton, Wesleyan minister, by Margaret, daughter of the late Rev. Walter Morison, a minis ter of the Established Church of Scotland. He was educated in this country, and adopted the law as his profession. After going through the cus tomary legal education, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple,and as a barrister went the Northern Circuit. He practised as a special pleader for some years, and in 1852 became a Queen's counsel and beucher, The same year he was returned in the Whig interest for Durham (cit 3 ), in coujunn tion with Mr. Granger. In 1857 he was elected at the head of the poll, having for his colleague the Right. Hon. J. R. Mowbray. On being appointed Solicitor-General in succession to Sir Henry S. Keating in 1830, he was re-elected without opposi tion. Sir William succeeded the present Lord Chancellor (Lord Westbury) as Attorney-General, and in the early part of the autumn last year was compelled to relinquish his dignified post as Attor ney-General, owing to his greatly impaired health. Owing to the death of the learned gentleman a vacancy takes place in the representation of the city of Durham. The late Sir William married in 1843 Agnes Mary, second daughter of Mr. Thomas J. Hall, the late chief magistrate of Bow-street. Sir William was an advanced Liberal in politics, being in favour of vote by ballot, and consequently exten. sion of the suffrage. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE FOLLY OF TREATING STRANGERS.—A WELL KNOWN THIEF, —Emily Sinclair and Charlotte Johnson, the former a well•known thief, were charged before Mr. Knox, with stealing a watch of the value of £5, from the person of a young man named Girling, porter at 12, Cork street, Burlington-gardens. From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared that about one o'clock this morning he went into the Duke of York public house, Union-street, Oxford-street, and there saw the prisoners. They asked him to treat them, and he did so, and on doing so he felt a tug at his watch, and on looking at his chain found that his watch was gone, the swivel of the chain having been broken. He accused Sin clair, who was the nearest to him of having taken it, and thinking she might have passed it to the other pri soner, gave them both into custody. While on the way to the station Sinclair dropped the watch from under her clothes. , _ Police-constable Wm. Claricoats, 72 C, said on taking the prisoners into custody, he observed Sinclair put her hand under clothes, and while going along Oxford -street she dropped the prosecutor's watch. Mr. Knox asked if anything was known of the prisoners, and Sergeant Fornett said that Sinclair had several times been in custody for felony, and had once suffered 18 months' imprisonment. Mr, Knox said he should discharge Johnson, and re mand Sinclair that the convictions against her might be proved. THAMES. WIFE BEATING .—William Perry, aged 28, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting his wife Elizabeth, who carried a baby in her arms. Her face was swollen and her loft eye blackened. Upon enter ing the witness box she said the prisoner was her husband and the father of her children, and she did not wish him to be sent to prison. Mr. Partridge said there were marks of considerable violence on the woman's face, and he would not allow the charge to be withdrawn. She was then sworn and stated that she was living at No. 4, Windaor-terrace, Canal-road, Stepney. Her husband came home intoxicated last night. He was like a madman, He called her by the most filthy names, and said he had come home for the purpose of breaking everything in the place, and said that she must provide another home for herself and five children. He then beat her about the head, face, and body with his fists most fear fully. He had very often beaten her when he was under the influence of liquor, but he was very well when he was sober. He was in the practice of stopping away from his home all night. Lydia Smith, a poor seamstress, who looked half f. wished, said she lived in the same house as Mr. and Mrs. Perry. The wife was an industrious and very clean woman. The prisoner came home last night and beat his wife in a most frightful manner. He commenced by kicking over a tub of water with which his wife was cleaning the passage, and said "out you go." The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his wife corn rnitted adultery with a beer shop-keeper named Adams, who carried on business in Limehouse, and they were seen coming out of a house of bad repute a fortnight after she was confined with her child. She commenced using very foul language when he came home last night. The prisoner then gave utterance to a volley of blasphemy and obscenity as an illustration of what his wife said. He was frequently checked by the magistrate. The wife was recalled, and denied emphatically that she had given her husband any cause for complaint, and the witness Mrs. Smith said the complainant was a well conducted woman. After a long discussion, Mr. Partridge said the prisoner was not bound to maintain his wife if she was false to him, but she denied on oath what her husband alleged against her. The prisoner was an ill-conditioned, badly disposed man, and he had wounded his wife very severely on a former occasion by flinging a basin at her. He believed the wife was very desirous of speaking the truth, and that she had a good feeling towards the prisoner, whom she wished to screen from punishment when she entered the witness-box. The prisoner was a savage fellow, and his boisterous and improper conduct in court did not say much in his favour. He sentenced him to be imprisoned for one month and kept to hard labour. WESTMINSTER. IN TILE LOWEST DEPTH IS A LOWER STILL, —Mary Ann Hudson, a woman about 25 years of age, was charged with being drunk, and using the most disgraceful and offensive language to a lady, and otherwise miseonducting herself, Sergeant Ayres, 27 D, said that there was a dress ball last night at the Vestry Hall, King's-road, Chelsea, and as the company entered the defendant posted herself at the door and conducted herself very disgracefully, using a most offensive epithet to a lady, who gave her no provoca tion, and who kindly repaid the insult by entreating that defendant should not be taken into custody for it. Witness then removed the defendant and sent a constable to watch her, who finding that she continued her impropriety of con duct took her into custody, and conveyed her to the station. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said she never used any bad language to any one, although she admitted that she had been drinking. Dennis, the gaoler, said she was a well known and most disorderly womaa. Defendant—Oh, dear me, no, I am not. Mr. Selfe—l have only been at this court a twelvemonth, and I have seen you here at least ten or twelve times. Defendant—l - always hare the bad lack to be brought before you. Dennis—That is not true. She is quite as often before Mr. Arnold. I think she has been hew altogether fifty hies. Mr. Selfe—lt is my duty to protect the public from an noyance by persons of your class, and I shall certainly do it. You are, unhappily, not only a person of a certain immoral condition of life, but you become worse and worse, and are an habitual drunkard, This sort of conduct can not be permitted to go on, and I now caution you for the last time of tho consequences. Now you are committed for ten days; and next time you come here I will send you, in default of bail, to prison for six months. THE ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN, on ascending the Mexican throne, will continua to use the motto which his arms now bear—" Equite dans la justice." A NEW WORK, entitled Poets and Novelists of the Nineteenth Century," is about to appear from the hand of Mr, S. F. Williams, author of "Critical Es says," and a well-known contributor to " The Rose, Sham rock, and Thistle" Magazine, and other periodicals. T HE NEW COMET, discovered ow the 28th of December last, by Respighi, is said to be rapidly approaching us, and will be at the point of least distance (happily for us a trifle of some 18,000,000 of miles) about the Ist of February. it is probably the comet which was observed in 1810, and its period is therefore something over 53 years• BILLING SGATE. Salmon, Os Od to Os Od ; trout, Od to Os : eels, 6d to 10d ; prawns, Os; pike, s kate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb. ; turbots, 4s Od t o 18s ; cod 28, 0d to 158 Od ; brills, 2s Od to6s°d ; doreys,Bd t o Od to Os Od each; soles, 3d to 3s Od p er p air ; common o ysters, 8s to 20s ; nat ives, 65s to 70s p er bushel ; whitings, 2s Od to ss; haddoc ks, 9s to 18s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od; so Od; crabs, Od to 66sd to Od e ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; 8 6d ;plaice and garnets, lobsters, flounders, Os Od per dozen; mackerel, Os per 100 ; fresh herrings, 7s to 8s per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. ; ms 8d to 8d ; ve , 48 4d to utton, 3 48 8d ; and pork 4B , 48 Od lani ß b e , ef o , 3 to 4s dd per Sibs, by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. f o r d om to Os3B 0 2 d d ; to 4al 8 4d Beef, from 2s 10 d to 4s 4(1; b m . utton, G,l to 41 8d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s dto 4s Ott per Blbs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 6id to 7d , of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. ; 8011) to 881 b, 31d to 4 d ; 1041 b, 4d to 441 ; 1041 b to Market hides, 561 b to 64 1 b, 2 1d to 3d ; 641 b to 7 21 b, 3 d t f3 o sib i f i l o ; , ', 6 "; 1 1 ) 1: l to d 81,0014b1„ (13;106to13,),1 1121 b, —d to —d. llorse hides, Os Od to lOs 6d ; calf skins, light, 2s 6d to 45 Od; full, 7s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, lls Od to 14s Od ; half-b r eds,i9s Od to lOs 6d; Downs, 7s Od to 9s Od; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; sheallings, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARK2TS. SmurriFlELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, 4s to 12s per load. Trade inactive. CUM] ERLAND..—Mest-lo hay, £3 Os to £4 10s O perclover, £4 Os to £5 103 Od ; and s aw, £1 6s to 12s load. An inanimate market. WnlTEcnApEL.—Neadow hay, L 3 Os to £4 10s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, 41 6s to £1 lOs per load. Trade slow. 128 } 65}$ MI i 1C44 107} 6/ 102 i 3i 129 98 P 1031 59 901 90 Business done 1031 41 A Turkish Magazine of Arts. The lliejmooai Funoon (a monthly publication) belongs to the Jemiyeti Ilmiyehi Osmaniyeh, or Ottoman Literary Society, the newly- formed Useful Knowledge Society, and is compiled by its mem bers. The editors are Munif Effendi and Kadri Buy. Among the contributors are H. H. Kiamil Pasha, late Grand Vizier, H. E. Edhem Pasha, H. E. Safert Pasha, H. E. Mehemed Jemil Pasha, Ambassador in Paris, Said Effendi (now in London on a mission), and Abu Bekr Effendi, Mussulman missionary at the Cape. The latter has contributed a series of letters on the Cape of Good Hope, which furnished the groundwork of a cock-and-bull story, in the English papers, according to which, the missionary of the Turkish Society for the Propagation of Islam among the Christians had depicted the dissensions among the Christians at the Cape, how a Bishop Colenso had criticised the texts of Scripture, and how he believed that in ten years' time the inhabi tants would abandon Christianity and adopt Islam ; to promote which result, he recommended that a number of well-paid Turkish missionaries sheuld be sent to the Cape, and that a liberal distribution sheuld be made of well-written Mussulman tracts. The real history of Abu Bekr's mission is, per haps, more interesting than the imaginary one. In Cape Town, a city of thirty thousand inhabitants, ten thousand are Mussulmans, acknowledging the Padishah as the head of their religion. When you were in Constantinople, the Turks were much tickled, by hearing from their Consul-General, Mr. De Roubaix, that there were Mussulmans who only spoke English or Dutch. It is a great satisfaction to the Turks to have these Mussulman dependents in an English territory, as they do not always bear with perfect complacency the assertion of some of the English here, that Queen Victoria is the greatest sovereign over Mussulmans, and our ambassador, Sir Henry Balwer represents the first Mussulman power. Dissensions on point of doctrine arising among the Mussulmans at the Cape, the matter was re ferred to Stamboul; and the Sublime Porte, instead of giving a verbal opinion, with great liberality sent oat a-distinguished mollah, Abu Bekr Effendi, well known in Stamboul circles, and they continue to pay him a salary of £4OO a year. Abu Bekr Effendi has done much to improve the religious and moral condition of the Mussulmans of the Cape, and has established a school there. He has communi cated to the Mei inootti Funoon some interesting ac counts of the Cape, and his proceedings ; not, how ever, mentioning one little fact which has interested his numerous Stamboul acquaintance, that he has married there an English-speaking Mussulman lady, who is highly accomplished and plays the piano, like several fashionable Khanums, in Stam boul. The Mejmooai, besides purely literary articles, has articles on geology by Edhem Pasha, banking by Mnnif Effendi and Kadri Bey, telegrams, &c. As it is written in a good and pure style it is much liked. Was the Earl of Essex---Hamlet 3 Shakspere being known to have been acquainted —freshly acquainted—with Southampton at the time when " Hamlet" was first planned and pro duced, may have conceived his character of Hamlet from Essex, and that of Horatio from Southampton ! The indications which would point to such a con clusion are not few. The common people regarded Essex as a prince, descended through his father from Edward the Third, and through his mother the imme Bate kinsman of Elizabeth; and some persons, like Sir John Hayward, imagined that his title to the throne was better than the Queen's. In person, for he had his father's beauty, he was all that Shakspere has described in the Prince of Denmark—the glass of fashion and the mould of form ; the observed of all observers. Then, again, in his family relations, as in his personal position and appearance, he resembled very closely the ideal prince. His mother had been tempted from her duty while her gracious and noble husband was alive. That handsome and generous husband was supposed to have been poisoned by the guilty pair who had done him such cruel wrong. After the father's murder, the seducer had married the consenting mother. That father had not perished in his prime without feeling and expressing some doubt that foul play had been used against him; he had sent from his deathbed his forgiveness to the guilty woman who had sacrificed his honour, and perhaps taken away his life. All these parti culars in the real life of Essex, and in the imaginary life of Hamlet are pointed out. There certainly is an exceeding singularity of agreement in the facts of the case and the incidents of the play. The re- Latiuu TT nmiPt 1B Vei elav same as that of Leicester to Essex. Under the pre tence of fatherly friendship, Leicester was suspicious of his nephew's motives and jealous of his actions; he kept the young man much in the country and at college; he let him see but little of his mother, and clouded his prospects in the world by an appear ance of benignant favour. Fear was probably at the root of all his conduct to the ardent, volatile youth. Gertrude's relations to her son were much like those of Lettice to Robert Devereux. She loved him much, but she feared him more. She could never quite reconcile him to his stepfather : a little more than kin and less than kind. Then, again, " in his moodiness, in his college learning. in his love for the theatre and the players, in his desire for the fiery action for which his nature was most unfit, there are many kinds of hints calling up au image of the Danish prince." HER MAJESTY S STAGIIOUNDS.—The meet yes terday was at Frog-green, Wokinghatn, whence there was a fast and capital run in the direction Reading, and the take was at Calcot, a few miles westward of that town. It was generally admitted by the field that this was one of the best days sport of the season. DEATH OF A COLUMBINE FROM FlRE.—Yestorday morning Madame Maria Charles, aged 27 years, a Columbine lately engaged in the pantomime at the Pavilion Theatre, WhitechaPel-road, expired in the accident ward of the London Hospital, from the mortal effects of burns re ceived by her dress taking fire while engaged in her duties on the stage about a fortnight ego. The unfortunate woman had been employed since Christmas-eve, and on the night of the accident, towards the termination of the pantomime, she retired to the back portion of the stage to adjust her dress, which by some means came in contact with the gas jets arranged behind a set piece of scenery. Sho was at once enveloped in flames, but the scene shifters and the managers , procured wet blankets, which were kept on the side of the stage, and speedily subdued the remnants of the burning dress. She was shockingly burnt over the back, and was at once removed to the above-named institution, but the shock to her system ultimately caused death. An inquest will be held on the body this day. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, January 22.—Cotton Goods.—The gradual decline of prices which has taken place during the last few weeks has made business rather more practicable to-day. The stoppage of mills has probably helped to this result, because the les sened production in a market not much burdened with stock naturally tends to strengthen the hands of sellers both of cloth and yarn. In the yarn market there has been a decidedly better feeling, with more business doing, and in some cases a shade higher prices obtainable than spinners would have accepted even so lately as yesterday. The business effected in shipping yarns has been chiefly for Cninn, and the Mediterranean markets. The sellers of home-trade yarns have asked rather high prices, but only a small imount of business has been done. Practically there has been no change in prices, but there has been more inquiry, and a less gloomy feeling existed than in the earlier part of the week. In cloths there has been but little done since Tuesday, and the improvement has been slight. Tae extreme flatness which existed up to that cb.y has given way a little, and some business has been done for China, owing to better accounts having been received by the mail to-day. Advices from Calcutta by the same mail are only a day later than those previously to hand, bat report a rather better feeling there. These advices have led to little or no business. Some offers have been made on India account, but of too speculative a character and at prices too low to be favourably entertained. The demand from the home trade is of no account ; and though the market on the whole is rather firmer, there is very little change in the relative position of buyers and sellers. The large orders held on foreign account have not yet been thrown upon the market, and the aggregate business is reported to have been small. At Hong Kong, Dec. 15, 84lb. shirtings were 2s. 6d. to 33. 63. per piece higher. FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL HAMELIN. The funeral of this distinguished French admiral took place on Thursday last at the Church of the Invalides, Paris, and was conducted with much ceremony. A numerous body of troops, consisting of eight battalions of infantry, a battalion of light infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, two batteries of artillery, a battalion and a squadron of the Paris Guard, with their bands and colours, was present, and the Imperial Guard was represented by a bat talion and a squadron of the corps. The troops were massed around the church, and presented arms at the same time as those of their com rades who were on duty within the building. The navy was represented by many officers of high rank who were stationed around the bier. Several Mini sters, diplomatists, marshals, and officers of the Imperial household were present, as well as a great number of officials oi all descriptions, and depu tations from the army, National Guard, the Senate, the Legislature, the Council of State, and many other bodies. The Emperor was represented by an aide-de-camp, General of Division Mollard, and by Count de Laferriere, one of his Ma jesty's chamberlains. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde were also represented. A portion oi the church was set apart for the use of the deceased admiral's family and friends, amongst whom, as chief mourners, were the admi ral's eldest son, Captain E. Hamelin ; his second son, Captain A. Hamelin ; and his nephew, M. Desvarannes. The cords of the pall were held by Baroche, Minister of Justice ; Marshal Vaillant, Minister of the Imperial Household and of Fine Arts ; Count de Chasseloup-Laubat, Minister of Marine and of Colonies; and Vice-Admiral Trehouart, senator, representing Admiral Desfosses, who was indisposed. At the commencement of the ceremony a salvo of 11 guns was fired by the artillery stationed on the quai of the Invalides, and during the progress of the service a military band played alter nately with the organ and with the vocal music executed by the choristers. A second salvo of 11 guns was fired at the conclusion of the ceremony, and at 1 o'clock the coffin, on a car drawn by six horses, was conveyed to the gate of the Invalides, when the troops marched past. The mortal remains of the gallant sailor were eventually borne by some petty officers in the navy to the vaults of the church, where by order of the Emperor, they are to repose, surrounded by many a gallant old soldier. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Jan. 23.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather. POOLE, Jan. 22.—Wind S.W.—Put back—lsabella, for Newfoundland. BRISTOL, Jan. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Jove, from Mauritius. CARDIFF, Jan. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Eliza, from Gibaltar. Sailed—Hermann, for Canary Islands—Result, for Barcelona. COWES, Jan. 22.—Arrived—Cid, screw steamer. from London for Bilboa. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 23.—Arrived—Persia, steamer, from New York., (IST MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived—Canada, from Messina ; Cornelius Grinnell, from New York. Sailed—Fanny Lambert, steamer, for Malta. DNAL, Saturday Morning. No arrivals. CONVICTED BY MISTAKE.—The Recorder o. Devonport has now under consideration a case, in which it is believed that injustice is being done to three youths, who are at present in Devonport gaol. James Attis, John Jenkins, and Charles Smith, whose ages vary from fourteen to seventeen years, were convicted at the last Devonport sessions for stealing part of a leaden pipe be longing to the water cistern of a house at Ford, The only material evidence against them was that of Police-con stable Dyer, who depoied that before he knew of the corn. mission of the robbery he met the prisoners in a road near Ford, at three o'clock in the morning ; that he ques tioned them and searched them, a lamp-post being close by, and finding nothing upon them, he let them go. They pre sently began to run, and the stolen property was found on the road which they had passed. There is no question but that the youths thus met were the thieves, but there is a doubt, amounting to a positive disproof, that they were Attis, Jenkins, and Smith. Dyer, the policeman who apprehended them a day or two afterwards, has from the first been most positive that the prisoners were the boys he met, and he still maintains that he was not mistaken. His evidence, unsupported, and contradicted by two witnesses, induced a majority of the jury to return a verdict of guilty. We say a majority, because the jury were so doubtful on the matter that they not only retired for consultation, but, on returning, their foreman, by a lapaus linguae, let out the oz,,,r,au InaGtl vi reeling oy giving as a vernier, .‘ Guilty, but recommended to mercy because the evidence is not clear against them." The prisoners were undefended, and this strange verdict passed unchallenged, and the lads were sentenced to terms of imprison ment varying from four to eighteen months, and to be whipped. The former punishment they are now en during, the latter, fortunately, has not as yet been carried out. On the arrival of the lads at Devonport Prison, they were seen by the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. May. From the time of their apprehension they all protested that the police had got hold of the wrong parties, a nd this assertion was renewed with so much earnestness to the chaplain that that gentleman made inquiries. Aided by Mr. Eastlake, solicitor to the Admiralty, Mr. May set to work to find out the truth ; discovered and ex amined important witnesses, and brought their statements before the authorities. The result has been that, after careful investigations, the jury who con victed the lads have sign ed a memorial expressing their unanimous belief that the prisoners are innocent ; and the Devonport magistrates, having . made independent inquiries, have f or warded the memorialof the jury to the Recorder, commending their pra yer to his attention. The mass of evidence no w brought to light showin the inno g cence of the prisoners is not only conclusive, but really astonishing. It is di sco vered that not only were A tt i s, Smith, and Jen kins not guilty, but that three other lads, somewhat resembling them, whose names are well known, are the real culprits. Attis and Smith slept on the night of the robbery at a lodging-house kept by one Painter, and in the same room with them ware fo u r other persons , all poor, of course, but two of them of unblemished charac ter. who have positively declared that the lads named did not leave the room the whole night through. Jenkins, the third prisoner, was that night sleeping at a house at the back of King-street, and four out of the five who slept in the same room with him have declared to the Magistrate that the boy slept in the same bedroom. But, to crown all, a lad recently released from prison is found, who confesses that it was he who committed the robbery, with two companions. A second member of this second trio has been seen, and in timates that he would confess if he were assured that a pro secution would not follow. Under these circumstances the Recorder of Devenport will probably advise Sir George Grey to advise the Queen to pardon the three prisoners for an offence which it is clear they never committed.— Western Morning hews. SECOND► EDITIC bUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLc ,CK. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 22.—The official joul:'nals publish a ukase relative to the representatic in of the various provinces and districts in Russia, with the exception of those of the west end of the BlLltie, and the Governments of Archangel, .Astracan, and Bessarabia. Th 9 Proposed Oxford-street Uudergrocund Railway. Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of the Mel7le bone Vestry, Mr. Churchwarden Hodges in the chair, A memorial was presented from the inhabitants of Ost3rd-street, praying that body, in the ilnte mats of the parish, to co-operate with them in a determined opposition to the projected underground railway from the Marble Arch, under Oxford-street and Holborn to Farringdon-street. Mr. POLAND, in moving that the prayer of the memorial be complied with, said the inhabitants of Oxford street had determined to oppose the scheme at every stage; for, as its promoters had deposited the money required by Parliament, they appeared determined to go on with it in defiance of public opinion. With a view to opposition, the inhabi bitants of Oxford. street had signed a guarantee that each pay one shilling in the p3und on their respective rentals ; and they hoped to defeat the bill on standing orders, as the promoters intended to take sixty cellars, or parts of cellars, with out giving the owners any notice. If they were permitted tocarry such a bill, Oxford-street would cut a pretty figure, for they had noticed that they required 78 houses, and he should like to know where the tradesmen, when turned out, were to go. The vestry, were deeply interested in pro tecting the rates of the parish, and therefore they hoped to have their co-operation. tiir JAMES HAMILTON seconded the resolution, and hoped the opposition would be unanimous in protecting one of the finest trading streets in Europe from destruction. The resolution was carried unanimously. A report was presented from the Rlilway Rating Committee agreeing to accept as a compromise a n assessment of £8,400 instead of £12,700 on. the Metropolitan Railway in the parish of Marylebone. Mr. Taverner and Mr. Surridge contended that a bad bargain had been made, as if they had gone into Court the parish would have got £lO,OOO. A very long discussion took place, and it being understood that the assessment was only for a year, the amendment was withdrawn and the motion carried. LONDON GAZETTE,—Last Evening, BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 21. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Prvy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Hamburg, reporting that the existing Customs and Excise duties levied in that State, have been prolonged until the end of the pre sent year. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 21, The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, through the Sec retary of State for Foreign Affairs, the following transla tion of a Danish Royal decree relating to the temporary customs' arrangement for the Kingdom of Denmak, and for the Duchy of Sleswig with regard to the Duchy of Holstein : We, Christian IX., &c., make known—The Duchy of Holstein and the provinces belonging to the same customs' district are to be considered, from the 22d of this month until further notice, as exempt from customs' dues Nvith respect to the import and export of wares of every descrip tion, and as respects purchase duties for shipping ; but the Minister of Finance is empowered to accord exemptions where local conditions or other peculiar circumstancut de mend it. From the same date likewise the ordinance for the k ing dom, of the Bth June, 1839, sec. 6 and 9, as well as the corresponding regulations in the ordinance for the D , achy of Schleswig, of the 24th October, 1837, shall be tentpo rarily suspended with regard to the Duchy of Holstein. With respect however to the payment of transit dues and shipping dues and clearance fees for freights to and from the said Duchies, no alteration will take place in the sit pre sent existing arrangements. All concerned in these ordinances are to con:form hereto. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, lAN. 22. 11th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Spencer Byng AJstley, from 15th Foot, to be Ensign, vice John Fane Bu Ward, transferred to the 32d Foot! 15th Foot—Gentlemao. Cadet Henry Bellinghat a Le Mottee, from the Royal Military College, to be Es 3 sign, by purchase, vice Spencer Byng Astley, transfer Ted to the 11th Foot. _ _ 32d Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Robert Stacy Coils to be Major, by purchase, vice George William Wallace Carpenter, who retires—Major the Hon. Bernard Ma thew Ward, from half-pay, late Depot Battalion, to be Major, vice Charles Clapcott, who retires upon temporary half pay—Lieutenant Alfred Robert William Thistlethw ayte, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Colts--. Ensign David Bond to be Lieutenant, by purchase,,, vice Thistlethwayte—Ensign John Fane Ballard, front Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bond. BANKRUPTS The Mowing are the only bankrupts of commercial im-, portance in the Gazette : Wm. Thurnell, meat salesman, East India-road David Jones, dairyman, Jury-street, Aldgate William Leach, beerseller, Greenwich Richard William Pyne, builder, Camberwell William Harmer, grocer, Finsbury Thomas Hayes, florist, Sydenham James Ellis, plumber, Minories Henry Castell, warehouseman, Aldermanbury Samuel Newman, brushmaker, Farnham James S. Snowden, sailmaker, Tooley-street John Osborne, timber, dealer, Bagnigge-Wells-road Allred Goshawk, photographer, Camberwell Ph ilip as S. Sambury, hemp dealer, Fowkes-building, City Ph Rogers, dairyman, Upper Lisson-st, Paddiu gtu Maurice Spiegel, merchant, Walbrook Hiram Ells, Carrier, City-road William Saddington, innkeeper, Wantage, Berks Course of the Exchange---Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 194 Antwerp — 25 65 Brussels — 25 65 Hamburgh — 13 71 Paris .. Ditto Marseilles - 25 75 Frankfort on Maine —119 k Vienna Tr i este Petersburgh — 33 -- Berlin — 48 Madrid ... ••• 47! Cadiz 75 871 Leghorn — 25 821 Milan .... — 25 821 25 8 8 7 t Genoa - 25 821 25 71 Naples Palermo - 25 821 25 87 i Messina Lisbon Oporto..• - o i Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars .. . ........ . .............. 0 0 0 Silver in Bars (Standard) S o uth American Doublons 11 17 i 2 0 12 0 25 70 25 70 13 8 25 30 25 80 25 80 119; 12 t@ 12 60 The citizens of Cork are very uncomfortalle at present. The " jingle-men"—otherwise cab-drivers--have struck in a body for higher fares ; and though some days h ave e l a psed, there is no sign of their yielding. m by us G ic eo b r y ge m s .Ssatnodu,tutohne, l h ib as re b tt e o en by pr M od . uee H d y A TWO-ACT OPERA, " L'Oreo," founded on a. novel m at all ta de la Monnaie in Brussels, with moderate success. T aild e a t t h re e REPRESENTATION OF BRIGHTON.—The cora' aittee of 25 gentlemen, appointed at a public meeting o the Liberal electors of Brighton'tc select a candidate who will, it is to be hoped, secure the united support of the Liberal party, are still engaged in considering the claims of Messrs. Dumas, Fawcett, Otway, and Goldsmid.. It is stated that Mr. Moor the Conservative candidate, ir ,tends to withdraw from the contest. During the paesent w eek, mr. Dumas has addressed crowded meetings of the el ectors at the Reeve Inn, Eusion-road, the Royal Oak, St. James's street, the Imperial Hotel, Queen's-road, and at Peter's Ward. The temperance party, which is numerically im portant at Brighton, elicited from Mr. D111110..i. that, al though he would not pledge himself to vote in favour of a permissive bill, he would support the appointment of a com mittee to investigate the subject. SUDDEN DEATH OF Mn. LLOYD, Trig COMEDIAN. —We regret to announce the suddea death of Mr. Frederick Lloyd, which took place on the 17th inst. The deceased, who was only in his 31st year, will be favourably remembered as the principal comedian of the Theatres Royal, Manchester and Liverpool, whilst metropolitan play-goers may recollect the success with which he filled a similar posit ion at Astley'a last y ear, when that theatre was under the manage:tient of Mr. Buucicault. Mr. Lleydialpti: peared in his usual good health when on Monday, been for inst., ho went to the Polytechnic, where he hiad.igt ehe was some weeks engaged as a buffo vocalist; but wwiai imme on the stage he broke a blood vessel, • and B e ver y attention ately conveyed to the Middlesex Ifospitialle. lingered through was there paid to him, but in vi a nd ' the 17th inst., at 11 the weel - , and died on Sunday last, .t k Lloyd was greatly o'clock in the forenoon. Mr. Frederick of friends, and, beloved and respected. by , a laargheeart-broken wife and three un happily he leaves behind Lim his irreparable lois,—Era, young children to mourn b 0 0 Odof 04,01 g; ' c .4 Dil id , In 6 103